Brush.



(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 8, I902.

F. H. TUCKER.

BRUSH.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1901.)

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FRANCIS HUGH TUCKER, OF INVERCARGILL, NEW ZEALAND.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 697,295, dated. April 8, 1902.

Application filed March 29, 1901. Serial No. 53,553. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS HUGH TUCKER, clerk, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Yarrow street, Invercargill, in the British Colony of New Zealand, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Brushes for lVetting the Surfaces of Paper and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a compressible vessel of suitable size and shape for holding water or other liquids for the purpose of wetting the surfaces of paper and the like, all as more fully hereinafter described, and shown in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the reservoir as stamped out ready for folding at the dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side view of a conveniently-shaped brush laid on a level surface. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same held perpendicularly, as is usual when in use. Fig. 4. is a perpendicular side view of a brush without the handle D, showing the contact edges of the vessel left plain in contact with the absorbent material. Fig. 5 is a part section showing the contact-surfaces rolled up inwardly. Fig. 6 is a part section showing the contact'surfaces turned over inwardly. Fig. 7 is a part section showing a metal or other suitable band around the outside to press the sides against the absorbent material, and Fig. 8 is a partly-sectional side view illustrating various features of my invention embodied in a single structure.

A is the reservoir or vessel.

7 B is the felt, hairs, or such like materials.

0 is a plug or cap or ornamental termination of handle.

D is the tube or funnel for filling the reservoir, said tube also serving as a handle, or the handle may be solid, orit may be absent, as in Fig. 4..

D is a hole punched in the reservoir to receive the part D.

E shows the contact edges rolled up inwardly. v

F shows the contact edges folded inwardly.

G is the metal or other band around the vessel.

W is the rest to keep the felt off the suporting-surface when the brush is laid down. nstead of the inlet through the hollow extension D or in addition thereto -1 may employ an inlet Z, closed by a plug X.

The vessel A is compressible. Any part of the vessel is pierced for fillingit, and a plug, cap, or screw-cap C or X is used to make the hole air-tight. It will be easily understood that it is not necessary to have both the cap 0 and the cap X upon the same brush. In fact, one or the other is quite sufficient and usual. As shown in Fig. 4, the handle D can be dispensed with. In another part of the vessel and between the sides is a strip of felt, hairs, bristles, or other like materials B, part of which extends from the vessel A to form the brush. The sides of the vessel have the ed es in contact with the felt B made to fit closely to the felt with plain edges, as shown in Fig. 4, or the edges may be rolled up, as in Fig. 5, or folded over, as in Fig. 6, or with a band G secured around the outside, as in Fig. 7. In Fig. 8 the body A has the hollow handle D, closed by the cap 0, the additional inlet X, the inwardly-rolled edges E, and the band G all embodied in a single structure. The vessel A being airtight at the plugged end or part 0 or X can not leak; but a slight pressure of the hand on the vessel A will make the water exude along or through the felt B. The vessel is made of metal or materials that will give to slight pressure and regain its shape when the pressure is released. If hairs or bristles are used, they are preferably bound together before being inserted between the sides of the vessel. A rest W is attached to the body A near the front end.

When the vessel is filled with water and tightly corked, it is only necessary in operating the brush to slightly squeeze the compressible vessel A, which being tightly corked forces the water to ooze out onto or through the felt brush B, which is applied to the paper or other surfaces to be made damp in the usual manner of applying letter-copying brushes.

It is preferable in constructing the brush to stamp the vessel A out with a die to the shape shown in Fig. 1 and then to fold it double after turning up the edges where shown by the dotted lines, securing the joints with any suitable solder, cement, &c., to make them watertight. The felt B is inserted as shown by the dotted lines B, Fig. 1, preferably before the soldering is done. The hole for filling the vessel may be as shown in the position Z, with the screw-cap or plug X, or the hole for filling the vessel by may be elongated into a handle D with the plug 0. As already stated, this handle can be done away with, or it may simply act as a handle instead of a filler. With suitable materials the vessel could be blown or cast.

What I claim, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A brush for wetting surfaces comprising a compressible body having a lateral fillingopening,and a hollow extension provided with aplug, the forward open end of the body having its edges returned inwardly, a brush fitting said open end, the sides of the brush contacting with the returned edges of the body, and projecting beyond said edges both inwardly and outwardly, a band extending around the body adjacent to the front end, and a rest projecting from the body adjacent to the front end.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 23d day of February, 1901.

FRANCIS HUGH TUCKER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM RUSSELL, CHARLES HENRY ROBERTS. 

